Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (NOMADLAND) helms this lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (a luminous Jessie Buckley). Nominated for 8 Academy Awards®
Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Set amid the underground world of 1950s table tennis, MARTY SUPREME evokes the vibe and intensity of director Josh Safdie’s earlier film UNCUT GEMS and features a career-making performance from Timothée Chalamet. Nominated for 9 Academy Awards®
Man-soo had it all — a loving family, the forest home of his youth, and a 25-year career at Solar Paper, where he’s suddenly given the axe. Park Chan-wook’s brilliantly incisive, darkly comic satire finds this newly unemployed man who, desperate to land a coveted job, hatches a ruthless plan to dispatch the competition.
The team behind last year’s THE BRUTALIST, co-writers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, return with another ambitious swing for the fences, this time with Fastvold in the director’s chair. With stunning celluloid cinematography and an astounding score and soundscape, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE plumbs the life and times of Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried), the founder of the Shaker movement and one of pre-Revolutionary America’s most seminal religious figures. Screening in 35mm.
In a sci-fi-coded world where people have lost the desire to dream, rogue “fantasmers” stoke their imaginations and the film’s ever-morphing protagonist (Jackson Yee) veers through a series of genres, from Méliès-inflected silent fantasy to wartime thriller to con-artist buddy picture to millennial vampire romance — the latter depicted in one of Bi Gan’s customary, and ever astonishing, single takes. A monumental love letter to a century of cinema.
Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars in this scintillating, slyly comic psychological thriller from director Rebecca Zlotowski, in which a suspicious death yields a series of twists that lead back to old grievances — and maybe even to past lives.
Adapted from Kahlil Joseph’s renowned video art installation, BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph’s family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.
Oscar-nominated director Kaouther Ben Hania blends actual recordings and scripted performances to tell the devastating true story of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian girl trapped in a car under Israeli military fire, and the first responders who tried to save her. Nominated for the Academy Award® for Best International Feature Film
Based on the memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, the directorial debut of Kristen Stewart is a raw and unflinching portrait of survival, sexuality and self-invention. Told as a fluid memory wash, the story transforms her trauma into art. It is not only a chronicle of a woman becoming a writer, but a visceral journey through the wreckage and resilience of a life lived against the grain.
An artist and a fisherman live with their three children and charismatic sheepdog in the quiet grandeur of the Icelandic countryside. Filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason (GODLAND) brings surprising humor and emotional weight to gorgeous, intimate and brilliantly expansive scenes from a marriage, amidst the majestic backdrop of the changing seasons.
They were never in time to book a gig at Toronto’s The Rivoli, then one day… They weren’t in their time at all. From Matt Johnson (BLACKBERRY) and Jay McCarrol’s cult comedy series comes an adventure 17 years in the making. NIRVANNA sets the flux capacitor for a gut-busting and time-skewing real good time.
A perennial audience favorite, the Oscar®-nominated short films return in three programs: Animation, Live Action and Documentary. Nominations will be announced on Jan 22 — and this program soon thereafter.
A perennial audience favorite, the Oscar®-nominated short films return in three programs: Animation, Live Action and Documentary. Nominations will be announced on Jan 22 — and this program soon thereafter.
A perennial audience favorite, the Oscar®-nominated short films return in three programs: Animation, Live Action and Documentary. Nominations will be announced on Jan 22 — and this program soon thereafter.
An unexpected smash hit at the Japanese box office, KOKUHO is Lee Sang-il’s long-gestating passion project, a gripping tale of friendship and rivalry in the world of Kabuki that weaves an irreplaceable story of heritage, cultural preservation and identity — shaped both on and by the stage — and unfolding in grand fashion across five decades. Nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
In his unorthodox queer romance, Harry Lighton crafts a film about a sadomasochistic relationship that is both transgressive and disarming, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård in fearless performances as a mild young man and his leather-clad dom lover.
A winner of this year’s Cannes Competition Jury Prize, SIRÂT is at once a visceral and metaphysical excursion, in which a man desperately searches for his missing daughter amid a roving raver community in the harsh southern deserts of Morocco. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards®